For one thing, turning concepts into numbers was a sort of anagramming to which he was unaccustomed.

John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines

Mae followed Terry through the building, which was more of an engineer’s lair than the parts of campus she’d become accustomed to visiting.

Dave Eggers -- The Circle

They were so accustomed to my presence, they’d forgotten it was even under consideration.

Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City

As I was unaccustomed to being called like a dog, it took her a number of shouts before I realized that meant "Move."

Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black

Neither of them smiled much—they greeted Michael and me with the bemused curiosity to which I was getting accustomed.

Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

He supposed he could have tried to talk one of his friends into staying, and might even have gotten one to agree, but he had long since grown accustomed to the fact that his friends lived their lives by a different schedule from his.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice

He gave me an odd look, it took me a while to recognize it as the one I’d grown accustomed to in the troupe.

Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind

Perhaps I grew too accustomed to our distance.

Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

Snubbed again, Kit fell silent and listened to that unaccustomed shouting in the distance.

Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

After a year of slavery in the Salt Mines of Endovier, Celaena Sardothien was accustomed to being escorted everywhere in shackles and at sword-point.

Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass

Milo and Tock stood blinking in the bright light and, as their eyes became accustomed to it, the first things they saw were the king’s advisers again rushing toward them.

It is hardest on adults who move here and are not accustomed to the agricultural dust.

Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

And you won’t believe this, but if you listen to any kind of music long enough, first you get accustomed to it and then you learn to like it.

Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Sewell might describe women as "weak and delicate [and] accustomed to no toil or trial" but they still managed to flee "with their arms full of treasures rescued from their doomed homes, and some even shouldered valises and trunks with the strength of strong men, and bore and dragged them through the crowd."

Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire

There was little I could do in a dress, and as for shoes, they imprisoned freedom-loving feet accustomed to the feel of the warm earth.

Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Flora Baumbach appeared even smaller and rounder than she was as she sat twisting her napkin with hands accustomed to being busy.

Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

That caused quite a sensation among the villagers, who were accustomed to loose-fitting, simple peasant clothing.

He was trim and model-handsome and accustomed to admiration, and he kept seizing on new careers and then abandoning them in a fit of impatience.

Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread

The man Jack’s eyes were accustomed to the dim moonlight, so he had no desire to turn on an electric light.

Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book

I’m accustomed to getting up before the sun rises; he pulls me back to bed.

Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train

He would frighten the dogs and take their hidden stashes now and then, but he didn’t harm them and we became accustomed to him hanging around.

Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong

He was six-two, one-ninety, with thick dark hair, a lean tanned face, and the calm gaze of someone accustomed to killing other people.

David Baldacci -- Zero Day

No other group had ever welcomed Oscar, so when he put on his green "service uniform," he felt a pride he was unaccustomed to.

Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts

The radio purrs and the woman laughs and Herr Siedler looks almost nothing, Werner decides, like his neighbors, their guarded, anxious faces—faces of people accustomed to watching loved ones disappear every morning into pits.

Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

I run fast and far the way I’ve become accustomed to running.

Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility

On the day King was buried the blacks assembled at recess in their accustomed place on the breezeway at the side of the school.

Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

Up and down the Barteljorisstraat, shop owners were out on the sidewalk; there was an unaccustomed neighborhood feel as advice, rolls of adhesive, and tales of the night’s terror passed from door to door.

Corrie Ten Boom -- The Hiding Place

Now we were almost relieved—the guns were far away, and the noise was a good deal less loud than thunder, to which we were accustomed.

V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River

Well, it takes all kinds, as I had been accustomed to hear from childhood.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

You can’t use a flashlight; you have to stay still, in the darkness, waiting until your eyes become accustomed to no light.

Margaret Atwood -- Cat’s Eye

He rubbed a hand over his jaw, a calculating gesture I’d grown accustomed to in only a few short days of knowing him.